On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 22:59, Bjarne Thomsen wrote: > It is clearly NFS/FTP + disk(IDE or SCSI) + HIGHMEM related, > under heavy load. > It never happens without highmem. > It only happens with 2.4.18 and 2.4.19 (maybe 2.4.17) kernels. > It never happens with the 2.4.8 kernel. > It is easy to produce with both P4 and Athlon processors. > You cannot produce it with heavy disk load alone.
I can do it with local RPM alone, nothing else going on. I've done it a couple of times copying over ~80GB or so of stuff between disks. No NFS or FTP. It also happened on kernels earlier than 2.4.17 for sure. -- Brad Felmey